Fall 2026 Research Assistants for the Alcohol Research Lab - Natural Language Processing Project

Are you interested in gaining research experience and exploring your interests in clinical research? The Alcohol Research Lab (ARL) is currently recruiting a limited number of undergraduate research assistants. In the ARL, we explore the effect of alcohol on social, cognitive, and emotional responses. Specifically, we are interested in looking at the reinforcing effects of alcohol in social contexts in order to get a better sense of the different factors that put an individual at risk of developing a problem with alcohol.

 

Research assistants aid in a variety of different aspects of our research including screening, recruiting, and data management. We are currently recruiting for a natural language processing project examining differences in intoxicated speech patterns. Research assistants on this project will help preprocess data for analysis and become more familiar with advanced computational methods and their applications within alcohol research.

 

We ask that our research assistants 1) commit 10 hours a week to the lab, 2) can attend our monthly lab meetings at 2pm on Wednesdays, and 3) have some evening/weekend availability to attend recruitment events two times a semester.

 

If you are interested in this position, please fill out our general lab application and note your interest in the "NLP position" explicitly. We are reviewing applications and interviewing students on a rolling basis. If you have any questions about the position, please contact Silvia Murgia (smurgia2@illinois.edu)"